STIAL is now SLSAE

Effective July 1, 2017, the St. Louis Institute of Association Executives (STIAL) changed its name to St. Louis Society of Association Executives (SLSAE). We are in the process of updating our website to reflect this change, but it’s a work in progress. Please note that any references to STIAL should be considered as references to SLSAE until we complete our website update.

Why SLSAE?

With dynamic opportunities for education and impressive networking potential, the St. Louis Society of Association Executives (SLSAE) is your local resource for association management information. SLSAE is the ONLY organization in the St. Louis area whose sole mission is to help association professionals like you achieve your professional and organizational goals. We offer many ways for you and your colleagues to connect and engage with other association professionals.

Benefits of Membership

Connecting and Exchanging

SLSAE membership provides access to other association professionals who are experiencing similar issues you are. There are tremendous opportunities for professional growth and to learn from each other.

Improving

Meeting program content addresses pertinent association management topics and features top-notch speakers providing innovative ideas that you can immediately apply in your work.

Just 10 days before the implementation date, a federal judge in Texas put the brakes on the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) new federal overtime rule, which would have doubled the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA’s) salary threshold for exemption from overtime pay.

Twenty-one states filed an emergency motion for a preliminary injunction in October to halt the rule. They claimed that the DOL exceeded its authority by raising the salary threshold too high and by providing for automatic adjustments to the threshold every three years.

The states’ case was consolidated last month with another lawsuit filed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups, which raised similar objections to the rule.

The overtime rule was scheduled to take effect Dec. 1 and would have raised the salary threshold from $23,660 to $47,476. The rule also provided for triennial adjustments based on the 40th percentile of weekly earnings of full-time salaried workers in the lowest-wage Census region.

“A preliminary injunction preserves the status quo while the court determines the department’s authority to make the final rule as well as the final rule’s validity,” said Judge Amos Mazzant of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in a Nov. 22 ruling.

“This is a total surprise in many respects, but you have to tip your hat to the judge who made a tough call and hopefully a decision that will stay in place,” said Alfred Robinson Jr., an attorney with Ogletree Deakins in Washington, D.C., and a former acting administrator of the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division.

“To Inspire People”

The existence of a dominant gender within an association has a direct impact on the reception by members and prospects of its messages and actions. This could affect your organization’s ability to recruit new members, retain existing members, and engage all members in essential volunteer and leadership activities.

Ask yourself these questions:

Is your organization male-dominant, female-dominant, or integrated?

Will there be any significant changes in this trend over the next ten years?

Does your organization effectively communicate the areas of high value as identified by the various segments including gender?

Once you’ve identified the gender distribution of your organization you are ready to consider the impact of gender on your association.

Source: The Decision to Join, Dalton, James and Dignam, Monica, page 92. Copyright 2007. ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership. www.asaecenter.org. Used with permission.